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Snow has Colorado ski resorts set to grab first-open honors

With snow blanketing Summit County on Friday morning, the ski resort arms race to see whose chairlifts start spinning first kicked into high gear.

Last year, it was out-of-state dark-horse contender Wild Mountain taking the honor on Oct. 7, though some Summit resort officials question the Minnesota resort's crown, since it opened only rope tows on a bunny hill and stayed open for a limited time.

By Wild Mountain's standards, this year's crown has been claimed already by Crystal Mountain in Washington, which opened for a few hours to 75 lucky skiers through a Facebook promotion.

"A lot of places open for a day to get the exposure," John Sellers, marketing director for Loveland Ski Area, said. "We're not going to compromise the condition of our early-season snow to get that attention. We're going to turn our lifts on and keep them on till May."

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